But after the shellacking the Russians have taken in Ukraine, I don’t think they have any appetite for more. And Lithuania is probably pretty sure they could beat them.
If they go into the Baltics, or even look like they might, all Nato has got is going into Poland ASAP. And half the Polish army is going to be in the Baltics. And maybe the Finns (they are kin to the Estonians), and maybe the Swedes too.
My maternal grandmother came from East Prussia which is now called Lithuania, and my grandfather came from Posen (Poznan) which is now Poland. He was in the Kaiser’s navy but decided the future there might end up bad, so they moved to America in the 1890’s. From what I have seen of that extended family, the people in Lituania who are former Prussians, are likely to put up one hell of a fight. During WWII members of that family fled the Russians by riding horse and sleigh across the frozen Baltic to eastern Germany. Many were killed when ice broke. These people have reasons to hate .